Meeting off. We'll call to order the meeting, which is now 06/27/2023, this regular meeting postponed from last week of the Providence City Plan Commission. It is '5 zero one. We'll call this meeting to order. Let's go around and take a
roll call starting with Noel. Noel Sanchez.
Will Sherry? Turn on your mic. Enter. Miguel Casada.
Chad Hirner, we will cancel.
Alright. It's a little bit of a hybrid meeting today. Bob's joining us remotely, and I think it'll still run smoothly. And Choi An is on vacation, a well deserved vacation. So we have first order of business is to prove the minutes from the 05/16/2023 meeting.
I hope you all have received and reviewed and read those minutes. Are there any edits? We should discuss them now if anyone cares to make a motion to approve them. Alright. We have a Second.
We have a motion, and we have a second. So I'll just do a voice vote, yay or nay. All in favor? Yay. Yay.
Yay. Any opposed? Any abstentions? The minutes pass. Oh, the next item of business is the election of the commission secretary.
Bob, would you like to introduce this?
Sure, mister chair. So so we do have a, a vacancy in the position of secretary. This is the person who, keeps the, signs the minutes. The minutes are typically prepared by the recording secretary. That's Choi Yan.
So this is the person who sort of reviews them and ensures that they're correct. So we do not necessarily have a preference about who that should be, although it, should not be, chair of, Gazdaco or vice chair of Verdi. So we've got, three three others. It could be either one if there's anyone who would like to volunteer to take on that very important duty.
Well, are there Is that the only duty?
That is the primary duty is signing the minutes. You are but you're you're listed as the The secretary. The secretary. Yes. So it's it's an important role that need we need to have
a secretary. I'll I'll do it if nobody else wants.
Will, Miguel, I I I feel like we're we're twisting arms here.
better Noel has we have a nomination of Noel Sanchez, a self nomination. Do we have any others? We do. We have a second?
Second nomination for that.
Alright. Miguel, we have a second. All in favor of Noel Sanchez acting as the secretary for the Providence City Planning Commission, say aye. Aye. Alright.
And you are our new secretary. Congratulations. Thank you. Yay. Let's get it over
Yeah. With that, we'll go to the director's report. Dirk?
Okay. So, just a couple of couple of items here. I'm happy to report that we've got a couple of new nominations, by the mayor for members of the city plan commission. They will be, considered by the finance committee tomorrow night. And, with any luck at next month's meeting, we'll have a full complement of seven commission members.
So stay tuned on that. Next, I'd like to say that, we had a really good kickoff meeting for the comprehensive plan a couple of days ago at the Providence Career and Technical, school. We had close to a 150 members of the public who showed up and sort of gave us a lot of feedback. We had good representation from all throughout the city. We had many members of the city council show up, So we see commissioner Sherry there.
If anybody else was there and I missed you, I apologize. But it was really it was a really good meeting just to sort of sort of lay out some of the basic questions about the comprehensive plan and, the direction we wanna take as a city, and, it went very well. So, that's just the beginning of this process. We have an online presence, so, please check that out, members of the public, and, also, look for meetings that we'll be having throughout the city, during the summer, and into the fall. And, of course, we'll be, reporting to you, the commission, each month as we as we work through this, and there will be a lot of opportunity for you to weigh in as well.
Wonderful. Thank you. With that, we will jump right into the first agenda item, which is a minor subdivision case number twenty three dash zero three seven m I. Address is 572 Elmwood Ave. The applicant is one zero three Evergreen LLC.
Mister chair, members of the commission, this is a subdivision, minor subdivision. It's it's one lot that's being subdivided into two lots. This is in the C 2 Zoning District. There are no minimum lot sizes in this district, but we do have to be aware of of a couple of issues, namely setbacks and ensuring that there's enough parking on the lot that contains the building. The the subdivision would create one vacant lot and then one lot that has a building on it.
And we have worked with our zoning official and with the applicant to ensure that there's adequate parking and that there are adequate setbacks with this. So this is a subdivision that is perfectly as of right as we lay out in the staff report. So with that, there is, the attorney for the applicant is here as well to
Attorney Conley is here. You wanna take it from there?
Thank you, mister chairman. I thought the presentation from the city was spot on. Don't have much to add. It's a by ride subdivision. We've compiled with all dimensional requirements.
If the the current owner is working with the interested buyer,
the subdivision is really driven by.
K. Mister Chairman, I I should have said something early, but just to Sorry. My mic was not. Just, to enter into the record, this, I I attended a meeting as a resident, a neighborhood meeting where at least one, if not the only, tenant that's gonna be there presented to the neighborhood, and I did attend that. It was not with the owner.
I don't think it's applicable to the subdivision, but I did wanna enter that to the record, and make sure that was okay.
We'll get some some legal advice on that. Yes. He has discussed it with me, and I agree. We just wanted to be transparent and make sure that it was on the record. Perfect.
Thank Thank you very much. Appreciate that, forthcomingness, Miguel. Alright. Commissioners, do you have anything for the the representative of the applicant before we hear the staff report? Is there
a plan for the second lot for the parking?
No. At this time, it's just to separate down the vacant lot. It's really to structure the financial ability of the incoming building owner, to be able to have the financial wherewithal to perform what they wanted to perform prior to us acquiring the property.
So there's two two two owners or one owner involved, but there's a person who was also interested.
Yeah. So, essentially, we we purchased the property, and upon purchase, a nonprofit reached out, and
had been trying to purchase the property, but we're unable to and could fix us back.
